- I’m of to the bingo Jimmy
- This early?It’s only half five
- I’m collecting me ma
- Maisie’s going to bingo? I thought she couldn’t walk
- We got a loan of a wheelchair for her
- Whacker Byrne has a wheelchair friendly bus now has he?
- No,he’s bleedin’ useless, so we’ve to walk, that’s why I’m leavin’ so early
- I don’t know how he gets any passengers for the Bingo run at all, sure aren’t they all half dead
- Here fuck off you, who’re you callin’ half dead?
- Well apart from yerself and Julie and the Maureen one, they all have one foot in the grave
- That’s shocking talk Jimmy Violet. They all love the bingo, it’s the only outing they have all week
- Don’t they get to mass as well, and I’m sure they have a funeral a week to go to. There can’t be too many of them left at this stage. I think Whacker is in the wrong business Ber…he should be driving limos for the undertakers, and he’d get less grief from his passengers.
- Well he’ll be getting grief off me when I see him, refusing to take me mas wheelchair. He can stick his bus up his swiss from now on. Right I’d better go, me ma will be hangin’ out the window waitin’ for me
- …and how are ye gettin’ home?
- We’ll get a taxi if we win
- …and if ye don’t win?
- Then I’ll be knackered walkin’
- Ye can’t be pushin’ Maisie in the dark Ber ,I’ll pick you up.
- Sure you’ll be in the pub Jimmy, and anyway will a wheelchair even fit into the back of your van with all that shite?
- It’s not shite, it’s me tools for work Bernie, and sure I’ll go the pub later. Isn’t the bingo over at ten?
- Yeah but I can’t see a wheelchair fitting in, and sure me ma can’t climb up into that front seat of the van anyway.
- I’ll hoosh her up
- Hoosh her? Me ma is eighty five and she’s just had a knee operation Jimmy, ye can’t hoosh her anywhere
- I’m only tryin’ to help Bernie, go on and walk so.
- Ah go on so, but give us a lift to me mas first will ye Jimmy.
- Will YOU be able to get up into the seat Ber?
- Sure can’t ye hoosh me up Jimmy
- I’ll hoosh you any time Bernie
- Is that a threat Jimmy?
- It’s a promise Ber
- You’re right, I am a soft touch.
- I’ll let ye know.
- Dirty minded fecker, here you may as well bring us to the Bingo while you’re at it. Get a bit of practice in for when you collect us
- Ah you’re pushing it now Ber
- No I’m not. I’m getting a lift off you.
Just as well he collected us; we won feck all again!
Better luck next time!
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Good story. Better luck next time!
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Bingo is a cruel game.
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My wife is half Irish & I could half hear the banter through my Central Texas skull, lol! Lovely humanity left me with more than a bit of a smile 🙂
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Happy to hear you enjoyed a laugh from so far away. Thanks for reading and commenting 😀😀😀😀 🇮🇪
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I just re-read this and laughed all over again. Looking forward to your diary entries this year!
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Thanks xx
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🙂
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